Look at the vedio link on the right side below the big photo of the guy (Ed. M. Harvard '75)
Harlem's School.
Harlem is considered the toughest "slum" in US - located in New York City . However, what is a slum is debatable. For poor countires it may be heaven. It is reported that in 1989, when Mikhail Gorbachev - Russian/USSR president came to see Harlem he said: "If this is a slum I will have three of them!"
Nontheless, it is psychological pressure too. A Harvard study showed that students from its School of Public Health said they would prefer to live on an income of $50,000 in a neighborhood where everyone earns $25,000 ---rather than earn $100,000 income and live in a neighborhood where
everyone else earns $200,000.
So perhaps feeling that you are poor can be depressing and not knowing the "culture of power" can be oppressing and debilitating -- even though you might be materially better off than someone in Ethiopia, Sudan or Sahara desert.
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/2006/0515_graham.html Schooling America: How the Public Schools Meet the Nations Changing Needs.
Umesh Sharma
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Ed.M. - International Education Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University,
Class of 2005
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